October 2021

I continued this month focusing on the air pistol for the most part, but threw in a little air rifle. All on the 10m range.

3rd of October

Weapon	Stance	Card ID	Score	Notes	Scanned Image
Air pistol AP3	1h	1 hand 1/3	57	1 missed shot, "only 9 on target, 5 in black" (centre)	SCAN
"	"	" 2/3	72	"best 1 hand to date". An outlier to be sure.	SCAN
"	"	" 3/3	59		SCAN
"	2h	2 hand 1/1	76	"best 2 hand to this date". This one felt really good to shoot. It is, however, 2-hand, which isn't sport-legal.	SCAN
Air rifle AR10	Bench-rest	AR10 1/2	68	Fired in quick succession; bench-rest is quite easy, so I was kicking it up a notch in speed, giving myself less time to sight the target.	SCAN
"	"	"" 2/2	"	The same deal as 1/2, and got the same score for it. It's at about this time that I began thinking about transitioning to standard air rifle (unsupported).	SCAN
"	AR (unsupported)	AR10 non-benchrest	26	Terrible. Simply terrible. The result of this was that I put off unsupported AR for a good while.	SCAN
"	Bench-rest	AR10 fun 1/1	N/a	Frustrated at my unsupported failure, I shot 40 pellets at a target.	SCAN

I ended the session feeling pretty awful about my abilities. In retrospect, this was silly, since I did my best to date in both 1- and 2-hand AP, and wasn't failing at bench rest AR. Yet all I could think about was how badly I did with unsupported AR...

10th of October

I only fired AP3 today on the 10m range, and only 1-handed.

Card ID	Score	Notes	Scanned Image
1 hand A	67		SCAN
" B	57		SCAN
" C	56	Missed 1 shot	SCAN
" D	57	"2 misses fuck I'm getting tired".	SCAN

I ended the session early, and felt miserable. I was making silly mistakes, and my arms hurt due to me having almost no upper body strength. Yeah, even holding a pea shooter up was making me too tired to carry on.

17th of October

Again, only AP3, and only 1 handed

Card ID	Score	Notes	Scanned Image
1st detail	55		SCAN
2nd "	65		SCAN
3rd "	67	By my method of counting, it's 67. Someone else counted it up quickly on the spot for me and wrote 70. I dunno which is closest; I know I'm not using the sport's proper scoring method anyway.	SCAN

I only shot 30 pellets today. My back was hurting, so I ended the session early. At least there were no misses today!

October 2021 roundup

I wasn't particularly happy with my performance this month, although it is only my second month. In retrospect, I was definitely improving, even if it didn't feel that way at the time.

Here's a chart logging my average scores and number of misses, with lines of best fit. I've combined it with my data from September, since I don't really have that many data points to go off (especially for 2 hand, since I only did one card 2 hand this month). I also haven't charted the AR data points, since I haven't shot enough with the AR to be worth it. Instead, those few crumbs of data will be brought into the charts whenever I start shooting AR more.